[Devel] Updated FHS

Stefano D'Angelo zanga.mail at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 04:28:20 PST 2012


2012/1/14 David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 17:34 +0200, Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
>> 2012/1/4 David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
>> > I updated the FHS page (and linked it from the front page) and added
>> > some information about saving user presets, and a new environment
>> > variable LV2_STATE_BUNDLE.
>> >
>> > Feedback welcome,
>>
>> I'm back eventually.
>>
>> I would suggest to change the default windows system path to:
>>
>> %APPDATA%/LV2;%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%/LV2
>>
>> Rationale: AFAIK %PROGRAMFILES% is for application-specific stuff,
>> while %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% is for stuff shared by more applications.
>> Futhermore, IIRC, there should be differences in how MSI and other
>> installers handle them.
>
> I have no idea.  The insane complexity and odd/ill-definedness of all
> this stuff in Windows is shocking, even for MS.
>
> How portable is this?

Windows XP and later at least, yet I guess also 2k has that.



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